Information about the package, libsmbios, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libsmbios package is designed for, Libsmbios C/C++ shared libraries.
Package Name:
libsmbios
Summary:
Libsmbios C/C++ shared libraries
Description:
Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package provides the C-based libsmbios library, with a C interface. This package also has a C++-based library, with a C++ interface. It is not actively maintained, but provided for backwards compatibility. New programs should use the libsmbios C interface.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.26
Release:
3.el6
Size:
226 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ or OSL 2.1
Control the libsmbios package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libsmbios
This command will install libsmbios on the server.
yum remove libsmbios
This command will un-install libsmbios on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsmbios, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libsmbios
This command will un-install libsmbios on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libsmbios when using the -y flag.
yum update libsmbios
This command will update libsmbios to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsmbios, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libsmbios
This command will update libsmbios to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libsmbios when using the -y flag.
yum info libsmbios
This command will show you core information about the libsmbios package.
yum deplist libsmbios
This command will show you the dependencies for libsmbios. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libsmbios
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libsmbios. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.